The International Center for Transitional Justice works to redress and prevent the most severe violations of human rights by confronting legacies of mass abuse. ICTJ seeks holistic solutions to promote accountability and create just and peaceful societies.
Today's launch of an illustrated version of Chega!, the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) final report, is an important step for human rights in Timor-Leste, said ICTJ. The CAVR Report gives an account of Timor-Leste’s history of mass human rights violations. The simplified version makes the CAVR’s messages of nonviolence, accountability and reconciliation accessible...
Press Release | Illustrations
ICTJ has expressed dismay at the presence of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at the promulgation ceremony for Kenya's new Constitution on August 27. In failing to arrest al-Bashir, under two warrants for arrest by the ICC, Kenya violated its obligations under both international law and under its new Constitution...
The Open Society Justice Initiative is hosting a panel discussion Sept. 7 on ICTJ co-founder Priscilla Hayner's recently updated book on truth commissions, Unspeakable Truths. Hayner will speak on the panel, joined by ICTJ President David Tolbert, OSI President Aryeh Neier and Yasmin Sooka, Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa...
ICTJ has submitted an analysis to the 10th session of the Universal Periodic Review of Myanmar/ Burma's record of impunity over the past two years, as well as the 2008 constitution as it relates to Burma's treaty obligations under international conventions. The new constitution, rather than catalyzing democratic change, perpetuates the existing culture of impunity...
English | Burmese
Caitlin Reiger, Director of International Policy Relations, discusses the National Tribunal being set up in Bangladesh to investigate the crimes committed during the 1971 conflict between East and West Pakistan...
The President's recent nomination of seven candidate commissioners to Liberia's Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) is a step forward for human rights and accountability, ICTJ said today. The Senate should begin the confirmation process as soon as possible so that the Commission can finally begin its work, which was meant to be started seven years ago...
Five years after the signing of the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding ending more than three decades of conflict, the Indonesian government and Aceh officials show little commitment to implementing an adequate human rights agenda, and victims' demands for acknowledgment and justice remain largely unheard, ICTJ said today...
Press Release | Fact Sheet
